More than 20,000 titles from New Zealand & the surrounding Pacific Islands can be located by title, publisher, & subject in this key resource. Also serving as a comprehensive directory to the region's publishing & bookselling industry, NEW ZEALAND BOOKS IN PRINT lists book, video, & audiocassette distributors; book trade associations; literary awards; agents; booksellers; libraries; & others. From D.W. Thorpe.

Books in print is the major source of information on books currently published and in print in the United States. The database provides the record of forthcoming books, books in-print, and books out-of-print.

CBIB is the complete reference & buying guide to English-language Canadian books currently in print. The two volumes (Author/Title Index & Subject Index) & mircrofiche editions are indispensable to the book profession, containing over 47,000 titles of which 4,000 have a 1999 imprint. Since CBIP encourages submissions from the largest to the smallest publishers, the volume provide access to many titles not listed elsewhere. Containing more than 46,000 titles, of which approximately 2,500 have a 1999 imprint, the Author/Title Index is extensively cross-referenced. The Subject Index lists the titles under 800 subject categories. Both books offer the most complete directory of Canadian publishers available, listing names, standard book number prefixes & street, e-mail, & web addresses of more than 4500 houses. CBIP is referred to constantly by order librarians, booksellers, researchers & all those involved in book acquisition. As well, CBIP is invaluable as a record of the vast wealth of publishing & writing activity in the scientific, literary, academic & arts communities across Canada.

In the first new edition of this authoritative guide since 1993, over 24,000 titles from 700 publishers in 43 African countries are identified, catalogued, and classified in easy-to-use Author, Title, and Subject indexes. Now incorporating materials listed in the quarterly African Book Publishing Record, African Books in Print covers works in over 120 African languages as well as English issued by more than 1,100 publishers, including commercial imprints, state-sponsored publishers, research institutions, professional associations, learned societies, university departments, and many other sources. All entries are listed again in a separate Directory of Publishers, which has been enhanced with telephone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses, and URLs, when available. A detailed introduction explains the scope and arrangement as well as a key to currency abbreviations (with approximate exchange rates), language, and country codes.